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A despairing Lebanese Prime Minister Fuad Siniora asked whether war-cursed Lebanese were "children of a lesser God," after leaving crucial talks without an endorsement for an immediate ceasefire. US Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice stood quietly beside him, as Siniora launched into a tirade against Israel, and delivered a moving elegy to the Lebanese he said were dying every day.

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